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judahmeek a day ago

What better merit is there than public approval for positions like that?

vkou 16 hours ago | parent [-]

If you ask five people who can't speak French to tell me which French-language essay deserves a higher grade, you'll quickly discover that their merit-finding abilities are a coin flip.

The whole purpose of elections is tangential to merit. There's important reasons to have them, but finding the 'best' candidate isn't one of them.